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- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
could the report provide a clearer representation of the organization's strategy and its ability to create and sustain value over the long-term? And finally, how could web-based technologies be used to promote the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
voting lines. While currently, committee members were appointed by the governor, a Republican, the new proposal would allow equal representation by both parties. They then asked participants to predict on a 100-point scale how much... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
representation of what people have done,” but believes there’s merit to examining a candidate’s record more closely. “You don’t just want to know if this person has a particular skill you need, but if they have skills similar enough to be... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
underrepresented communities. “The inherent relatability and authentic voice in the Esperanza case resonates,” she says. And while the Esperanza case is an important advance in increasing Latinx representation at HBS, the authors also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
there are business models they can learn from,” remarks Kuemmerle. As an example, he points to a case involving a Pakistani air-freight company, written in response to post-9/11 student feedback requesting more representation of business... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
micro-interactions comprising a negotiation are shaped by the representation structure (principals, agents, or teams) of the parties. In qualitative and quantitative analyses of negotiations carried out by principals, agents, and teams in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
how to change intrenched culture: “Baby steps.” SEPTEMBER 23 In a recent episode of Skydeck, the HBS Alumni podcast, ICV Partners cofounder Willie Woods (MBA 1993) discusses what companies can do to improve Black representation in their... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
can help employees navigate promotion cycles, client engagements, and interpersonal dynamics. It’s important to note as we discuss promotion, this should be across departments for true representation and diversity of thought and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
beginning, not as an afterthought once baggage handling and frequent flyer miles are running smoothly, and they must put dollars behind it. When a smaller Asian financial firm took over a larger, older bank that had to be bailed out by its government, a key part of the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
underwriting representative for public television and radio stations throughout the United States. When Mr. Williams and his wife, Linda Williams, started NPB in 1996, they had imagined it would grow quickly and be acquired by a larger media View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Representations Author:Heidi K. Gardner Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming) Abstract Why are some teams more effective than others in using their members' knowledge? This paper identifies shared... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
tools are more accessible than ever, but the representation gap persists. I want more women to feel confident engaging with not only using AI but also actively shaping how it’s applied to problems that directly impact us. Second, women’s... View Details
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
attributes that you care about; and what you are trying to do with the dataset.” James Mickens Read the Transcript To many, data is assumed to be value neutral . It’s interpreted as the purest, logical representation of perceivable... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Komatsu and Dresser created a fifty-fifty joint venture (Komatsu Dresser Corporation, or KDC), merging manufacturing, engineering, and finance operations. The joint venture maintained equal management representation on the six-person... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
categories: representation, consistency, and non-suppression. Representation refers to the fact that if customers are given input into a product choice, they expect it to count as much as—if not more than—the company’s own input. In one... View Details